Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-20
LOCAL NE w s.
Brief Mention.

erysipelas.
The snow was seven inches deep in Win
sted Monday.
F. w. Boettscher, of New Britain, sails
for Germany April 80.
Work at the Candee rubber shop will be
resumed in about two weeks.
The committee on streets meets tonight
and has many matters to consider.
1t is thought that when the rubber shop
starts again it will be with full force
The New Haven Gun club members have
a practice shoot to-day at their range.
Captain George Devins, of Seymour, died
Monday after an illness of several weeks.
Mayor Beatty, of New Britain, has writ
ten quite lengthy poem entitled "Erin."
Samuel B. Horne camp, Sons of Veterans,
has been organized in due form in Winsted.
The condition of Mr.. Thomas R. Trow-
bridge continued about the same yester-
day.
Good Samaritans' temperance meeting to-
night in Good samaritans' hall, SIT Chapel
street.
Judge L. E. Munson will read paper be-
fore the Berkshire (Mass.) Historical society
shortly.
DR.. Charles A. Lindsey is building good
sized addition to the rear of his residence On
Elm street.
The funeral of Dr. E. S. Miner, of Tor
ringford, took place from the Torringford
church last Monday.
The board of health held special meeting
last evening at which matters of no public
interest were considered.
The Dominicans' fair continues to attract
large audiences to the Union armory. 1t
is having great success.
John Damon and James Fletcher, two
East Hartford men, removed yesterday to
Fair Haven to reside.
The street sprinkling question will, various
citizens predict, result in return to the old
method in force last year.
The third annual supper of the '84 class
of the Birmingham High school will be held
this evening at the Bassett House.
Rev. Mr.. Delano of the Baptist church,
South Norwalk, is dangerously ill with cry
many days.
See the adv. of antique furniture for sale
at the gymnasium building, Wooster Square.
Entrance on Chestnut street, sale to occur
next Monday.
The builders were at work yesterday put
ting in the new front for the Brooks hat
store in the old Tradesmen's bank building.
1t will be handsome one.
F. G. futile, the rubber man at 70 Church
street, opens his Bridgeport store, No. 465
Main street, to-day. 1t is stocked with a
splendid line of rubber goods.
At the town clerks Office business is good.
The transfers of real estate are not numer-
Gus, but many changes of mortgages are be-
ing made to get lower rates of interest.
Acres of peas planted in Hamden were
covered with the "beautiful snow" Monday
and the farmers were worried. Potatoes and
peas were planted on the town farm week
ago.
The Consolidated road has purchased the
interest which the New England road had in
the transfer company which transfers cars
around New York city by boat and thereby
becomes sole owner of that property.
J. P. Hopson, station agent of the Conso1-
idated road at South Norwalk, has resigned
his position and President w. 81. Stevenson
has appointed him superintendent of the
New York, Rutland and Montreal railway.
General W. II. Pierpont goes to Hartford
tomorrow night to assist in organizing there
a new camp of Sons of Veterans out of the
ruins of the old camp, which was disbanded
owing to some trouble among the members.
W. b. Hoyt of Hoyt Brothers, oyster deal
ers, Bridgeport, is filling contract to ship
$4,000 barrels of oysters for parties in Eng
land and forwarding about 1900 barrels
weekly. He has packers in Bridgeport, in
New Haven and at South Norwalk.
The price of coal in town has got back to
near the old figures which ruled before the
great coal strike. The coal supply arriving
is light, owing to the unsettled state of
things caused by the new rates under the
Interstate commerce law.
The builders say that they find the labor
troubles have given building operations set
back this spring. It is last springs expert
ence repeated. They say they are taking
very few new contracts, not being able to
give bottom figures with any certainty.
The funeral of the late Richard G. Enscoe
will take place this morning at st. Mary's
church at 8 o'clock when solemn high mass
will be celebrated by the Dominican Fathers,
The interment will be in st. Bernard's ceme-
terry. The Plumbers union, Of which the
deceased was member, will attend the
funeral in body.
William Walter Phelps said in New York
Yesterday that the report published in sew
eral newspapers that he had given sos, 900
to Yale college lately Gas fund for the
study of civil government and political econ
omyn was news to him. It might have start
ed from the fact that he had said he would
Give SIC. 900 to that fund when the S. S. s.
farm was extended from three years to four.
Ivers &c Pond Pianos.
These pianos are continually becoming
more popular and their sale largely increas-
ing. L. Barker G Co. of Hartford delivered
Yesterday to the fortunate New Haven pur-
chaser an elegant 81 900 Ivers 6 Pond up
right. Barker & Co. attend personally and